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Governance and the Effectiveness of Public Health Subsidies in Ghana, Kenya, and Uganda

Rebecca Dizon-Ross
Pascaline Dupas
Jonathan Robinson
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Improving the Transparency and Delivery of a Subsidized Rice Program in Indonesia

Abhijit Banerjee
Jordan Kyle Cohen
Rema Hanna
Ben Olken
Sudarno Sumarto
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Project Generasi: Conditional Community Block Grants in Indonesia

Ben Olken
Junko Onishi
Susan Wong
Researchers partnered with the Government of Indonesia to evaluate the impact of community block grants and the additional effect of performance incentives. They found that community block grants improved health and education in Indonesian villages, and adding performance incentives sped up...
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Investigating Rural Labor Markets Among the Ultra-Poor in Northern Ghana

Abhijit Banerjee
Dean Karlan
Robert Osei
Hannah Trachtman
Christopher Udry
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Opportunities to Improve the Expansion and Impact of Agricultural Lending in Mali

Lori Beaman
Dean Karlan
Bram Thuysbaert
Christopher Udry
Researchers evaluated the impact of additional investments in agriculture on income for subsistence farmers. In rural Mali, giving some farmers unrestricted cash grants led to significantly higher productivity and profits, suggesting farmers would invest more in their farms if they had more capital.
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The Impact of Emergency Cash Assistance in a Pandemic

Juliana Londoño-Vélez
Pablo Querubin
Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation in Colombia to assess the effects of emergency cash assistance on the well-being of households. Recipients of the UCT experienced improved financial health, food access, and psychological well-being. Colombia’s newly implemented mobile money system...
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Eliminating Behavioral Barriers to Saving through a Tablet App for the Base of the Pyramid in Paraguay

Viviane Azevedo
Jeanne Lafortune
Liliana Olarte
José Tessada
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Combining In-School and Out-of-School Programs to Improve Learning in India

Researchers conducted a randomized evaluation to test the impact of the combination of an in-school learning program with an out-of-school learning program on primary school math and reading levels. The combination of the two programs led to a significant increase in children's test scores in both...